Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Baldelli out indefinitely

Rocco Baldelli addressed his lingering medical problems for the first time today.

“What the doctors eventually found through all of this was I have some type of metabolic and/or mitochondrial abnormalities. Basically, somewhere along the line in my body – I don’t want to get too deep into the medicine because it’s not really my expertise, but either my body isn’t making or producing or storing ATP the right way and therefore not allowing, apparently, my muscles to work as they should and, especially, recover on a day-to-day basis. So it becomes very difficult to get on the field every day and play.”

Baldelli will start the season on the DL, where he will remain indefinitely. The Rays have said that they will not pick up his 2009 option on April 1st, but may re-sign him at a later date. But for now, there’s certainly a hole to fill.

Personally, I’m hoping the Rays sign Kenny Lofton to roam the outfield. I have two good reasons for this:

1. I’m terrified of the Rays this year, and everybody knows Lofton teams don’t win the World Series. It might as well be in the Bible. Or at least a constitutional amendment.

2. As a division opponent, Dice-K would get a ton of opportunities to drill Lofton in the shins for dragging ass to the batters box in game 3 of the ALCS.

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